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SerraeX Launches Indiegogo to Bring the Production of Essential Health Goods Like Masks & Respirators back to the USA

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has shown the dire need to have essential health goods manufactured in the United States, rather than places like China. Startup company SerraeX is aiming to change this with their ambitious new crowdfunding campaign




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Next Generation Sales & Marketing Director Shares Insights into Self-Directed Investing on #1 Leading Ladies Podcast

Brittany Melville Discussed Using Funds from Existing Workplace Retirement Plans or IRAs to Fund a New Self-Directed IRA, Take Advantage of Opportunities to Invest in Alternative Assets




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David S. Hagen, has been recognized as an Expert in Bankruptcy Law by the International Association of Who's Who

David S. Hagen, of Encino, California, is honored by the International Association of Who's Who as an Expert in Bankruptcy Law for his outstanding contributions within the field of Law.




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DPL Adds Two Commission-free Fixed-indexed Annuities With Shortened Surrender Periods to Platform

New products increase RIA network's offerings from longtime carrier partner Great American




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Ackerman Retail Completes Land Transactions for Popeyes Expansion in South Georgia

Vice President Stephen Lapierre represents developer Verdad Real Estate in acquisition of properties for two Popeyes restaurants




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Reily and Associates Announce Plans to Offer Assistance to the Local Community During the COVID-19 Crisis

Reily and Associates pledge to use their resources and experience to find ways to help the local community through funds, equipment, and logistical support, throughout this coronavirus crisis.




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Chad Larson Selected as Finalist for Discretionary Manager of the Year in the WP Awards 2020

MLD Wealth Management announced that it had been selected as a Finalist for Discretionary Manager of the Year and Multi-Service Advisory Team of the Year in the 6th annual Wealth Professional Awards.




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FarmVisionAI™ Installations Double and Help Farmers Manage COVID-19 Restrictions

Illumitex's FarmVisionAI provides remote visualization, AI analysis, and labor management alleviating COVID-19 driven operational constraints




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Ventana Research Begins New Dynamic Insights Research on Natural Language Processing

Latest research aims to understand advances in natural language capabilities and its impact on business




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Social Media for Goal Setting, Documenting Activities Progress and Video Resume. A Post Pandemic Branding Platform kickstarter Campaign

WorkParrrots brand people online persona as Goal Achievers by providing social tools to set goals, collaborate and track Schedule. Employers Swipe resume Video Pitch to hire




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Orlando Business Broker Michael Shea Awarded Top Broker Honors for Deal Volume and Co-Brokering by the Business Brokers of Florida

The Business Brokers of Florida Annual Awards Announced Michael Shea as Top Broker in Central Florida




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CUNA Mutual Group Launches Advanced Planning Resources Program To Help Advisors Solve Complex Retirement Planning Challenges

Announces Marshall Heitzman to Lead New Program Efforts




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Health and Wellness Company Launches Pre-IPO Funding Round with Brokers Crowdfunder.com




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Envision Financial Systems Launches Upgraded Portal

New interface features better security, accessibility




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CBD Sparkling Water Company Infuzed Brands Intends to Raise $28M in Reg A+ Launch

New funding round follows a successful Reg D round




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Clarifying Xbox Series X’s Power

Our Xbox crew discusses the recently revealed Xbox Series X tech specs in more detail after some added context arrives in our inbox from a software developer. Plus: Bleeding Edge is another new first-party release this week, we try to decode Konami's denial of the Silent Hill reboot rumor, and more!




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Xbox Series X Gameplay Showcase Analysis

Xbox's first big salvo of next-gen games has been fired, and we've got reactions and analysis to all of the big third-party game reveals and showcases – from the good to the bad to the stomach-churning.




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Unplanned Temporary Road Closure - Arundel

Streets Affected: Captain Cook Drive (half road closure with traffic control - expect delays) between Captain Cook Close and Logistics Place

Start date: 8 May 2020

End date: 8 May 2020

Duration: 9am - 3pm

Reason: Emergency repair works on a 300mm recycled water main along Captain Cook Drive

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Temporary Road Closure - Coolangatta

Streets affected: Lord Street (full road closure local traffic access only) between Musgrave Street and Winston Street

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Start date: 15 May 2020 only

Contingency dates: 18 May 2020,  19 May 2020,  20 May 2020

Duration: 5am – 6:30pm

Reason: To facilitate large concrete pour - 1 day only between above dates




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The Super Duper NLP Repo: 100 Ready-to-Run Colab Notebooks

Check out this repository of more than 100 freely-accessible NLP notebooks, curated from around the internet, and ready to launch in Colab with a single click.




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Introducing Brain Simulator II: A New Platform for AGI Experimentation

A growing consensus of researchers contend that new algorithms are needed to transform narrow AI to AGI. Brain Simulator II is free software for new algorithm development targeted at AGI that you can experiment with and participate in its development.




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Natural Language Processing Recipes: Best Practices and Examples

Here is an overview of another great natural language processing resource, this time from Microsoft, which demonstrates best practices and implementation guidelines for a variety of tasks and scenarios.




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Top Stories, Apr 27 – May 3: Five Cool Python Libraries for Data Science; Natural Language Processing Recipes: Best Practices and Examples

Also: Coronavirus COVID-19 Genome Analysis using Biopython; LSTM for time series prediction; A Concise Course in Statistical Inference: The Free eBook; Exploring the Impact of Geographic Information Systems




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Explaining “Blackbox” Machine Learning Models: Practical Application of SHAP

Train a "blackbox" GBM model on a real dataset and make it explainable with SHAP.




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Sri Lankan PM seeks US assistance for apparel sector




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Vietnam to focus on stimulating three support industries




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Dhaka slashes GDP to 11-year low of 5.2% for 2019-20




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Anchor launches a video conference-to-podcast conversion tool

The Spotify-owned company’s new tool may help businesses get more out of their webinars and online conference content.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Soapbox: Enjoy the attention glut while it lasts

Working from home has been a boon to the attention economy, but understand that it will not last.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Shopify launches post-COVID POS, Yelp rolls out omnichannel tools for SMBs

The companies are part of a shift toward deeper integration between online and offline operations.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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The Spit, Surfers Paradise and Coolangatta remain closed.

Mayor Tom Tate today announced that beach and car park restrictions would remain in place until next Monday.

"I would like to congratulate Gold Coasters for their efforts over the long weekend with the vast majority of people doing the right thing

"However I have decided to keep the three beaches closed until next Monday. It is still school holidays and we are not in a position to relax just yet. 

"I will review it next Monday."

"It is tough love, but it is still school holidays and the closures are working."

The Spit beach, Coolangatta Beach and Surfers Paradise Beach were closed last week due to high numbers of people continuing to visit beaches despite the warnings from the State and Federal Governments.

The City has also shut car parks beach and oceanside from Broadwater Parklands to Coolangatta.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO of Vivaldi Partners and author of "Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big Growth Strategy."




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Everything Is Miscellaneous

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Managing B Players

Tom DeLong, Harvard Business School professor.




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Competing in the New Global Landscape

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The Right Way to Collaborate (If You Must)

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How Iconoclasts Think

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When the Corporate Ladder Becomes a Lattice

Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP and coauthor of "The Corporate Lattice."




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Avoid These Career-Planning Fallacies

Monika Hamori, professor at IE Business School in Madrid and author of the HBR article "Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies."




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The Economics of Mass Collaboration

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The Glass Cliff Phenomenon

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Who Do You Blame When Things Go Wrong?

Ben Dattner, founder of Dattner Consulting and author of "The Blame Game."




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Planning Your Post-Retirement Career

Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and author of "The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife."




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What Leaders Need to Know About Collaboration

Morten Hansen, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and author of "Collaboration."




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Coca-Cola’s CEO on Doubling the Size of His Company

Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola.




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Francis Ford Coppola on Family, Fulfillment, and Breaking the Rules

Francis Ford Coppola, acclaimed film director.




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Business Wasn’t Always the Villain

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."




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Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration

Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft, co-directors of the Environments Collaborative at the Stanford University d.school and authors of "Make Space."